Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12799, Henry Dougherty, Penn. Agency And Residence

SERVICE
NUMBER
Dougherty, Henry
S. 12799
(Penn. Agency and Residence)
Carded
CONTENTS

Rev
12.799 INVALID.
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File No. 12.799
Henry Dougherty Dis. Rev. War.
Act: _____
Index:—Vo' _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Application for a new certificate
County of Lycoming, ss Penn a Seal
On the twentieth day of April 1821
before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Lycoming, personally appeared Henry Dougherty who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Cookson Long in the Regiment commanded by Colonel James Potter in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Pennsylvania that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature & seal of his commanding Officer which Certificate on or about the month of March in the Year 1815 at or near the Township of Nippon in the said County of Lycoming was lost or mislaid he having made diligent search and enquiry respecting it and has never been able to obtain it
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid James Watson J.P.
Henry Dougherty marks
Lycoming County ss. I Philip Krebs prothonotary of the court of common pleas for said county, Do certify that the above named James Watson Esquire, before whom the above deposition was taken, is and was at the time of taking the same, duly commissioned and appointed, one of our Justices of the peace in and for the said County. To whose Official acts as such due credit, is and ought to be given. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, at Williamsport the twenty fourth day of April A.D. One thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
Philip Krebs

Sir
Mr. Edward Everett The New Orleans Recd 9 Mar
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City
By mail

Jeneyshera Lycoming County Penn a
April 24. 1821
Sir
I at the request of Henry Dougherty an old soldier enclose you his Application for a new certificate agreeably to the form required and furnished him some time since by the Secy of War. Therefore you will oblige him by forwarding under cover to the bearer of
Matthew M Reynolds
Jeneyshera Lycoming Co. Pa
Enclosed
W. C. Johnson Secy of War April 24. 1821

Pennsylvania
Henry Dougherty private
In the Army of the revo- -tion described on the roll of the Penn a agency at the rate of $2.13 1 / 3
Duplicate certificate issued 10 th May 1821 & sent to Matthew M Reynolds Esq. Jersey Shore. N.J.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Dougherty, Hugh GRADE Private LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 12991 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED September 2, 1789 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.